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The Willem de Kooning Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $402k
Largely a single collection — about 91% of reported assets are Willem De Kooning Artwork.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWISS INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| THE BROOKLYN RAIL | $100,000 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC | $75,000 |
| J PAUL GETTY TRUST | $75,000 |
| THE ARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INC | $51,930 |
| ARTADIA (ART COUNCIL INC) | $40,000 |
| PUBLICOLOR INC | $25,000 |
| STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SISWISS INSTITUTE4× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +82%
United States Artists Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $697k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- PIPARTICIPANT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $320k · revenue +394% · 91% of their budget
- ISINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INCone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -2%
- IRINTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE FOR UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
The museum encourages an appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education, and public programs for diverse audiences.inspired by the natural setting and historical artistic community of long island's east end, the…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Support an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women and non-binary artists in order to provide support and visibility. as an artist-run organization, artists in residence fosters involvement through multiple tiers of representation:…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SWISS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds PARTICIPANT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA ↗
- Who funds Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds AMBER WAVES FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR THE EAST END INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE AMBULANCE INC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANNA MIRABAI LYTTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Kate Cassidy Foundation · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Jct Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · J & Ar Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Willem de Kooning Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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